56 The Ethnology of India. 
‘w’ ‘and,’ most people would think palpable 
The copulative 
Persian, and not go all the way to the Canarese for it. 
It comes then in my view to this that the only real appearance of 
analogy to the Dravidian class of languages in particular (as distin- 
guished from the body of Turanian languages in general) is reduced 
to two numerals. In Brahui neither ‘ one’ nor ‘ four’ and upwards in 
the least correspond with Dravidian numerals, but the two numbers 
‘two’ and ‘ three’ as given by Dr. Caldwell do seem similar. He gives 
the Brahui two, ‘ zrat’ and three, ‘ muszt’ or ‘ muoit’ which bear com- 
parison with the Dravidian two, ‘ eradu,’ ‘irandu,’ ‘randu,’ ‘ ranw 
and three, ‘mwrw’ ‘ mudu,’ ‘ mundu,’ ‘ munnar,’ * munu.’ 
The Brahui one ‘ asit’ seems very like the Pehlevi ‘ achat,’ and 
the Brahui irat may come from the Pehlevi ‘ tarein’ two, the Cauca- 
sian ‘zerw’ and the Georgian ‘orz.’ If so the ‘three’ would be the 
only tie to the Dravidians left, and that is not very close. The 
ground of induction seems insufficient to connect such dissimilar 
people. My impression is, that if, instead of saying that the Brahui 
language is mainly Punjabee with a Dravidian element, Dr. Caldwell 
had said that it is mainly Arian (Indo-Persic) with a Turanian 
element, that would have been more correct, At any rate in so 
important a matter fuller inquiry is necessary. 
THE MODERN INDIANS. 
I commence with the Bramins. 
It is well-known that the Bramins as Priests are a necessary part 
of every Hindu society, and as Priests they are to be found wherever 
there are Hindus. - In that character then it would be unnecessary 
to my purpose more particularly to trace them, for with their reli- 
gious sects and tenets I do not deal. I shall only trace them for 
Kthnological purposes through the countries in which they form an 
important part of the general secular population. In fact, far from 
being restricted to the character of Priests, they are-one of the 
most numerous castes in India, and probably that which follows the 
greatest variety of avocations. On the whole I should say that they are 
less prejudiced than any other of those whom I call full-blown or High 
Hindus. At any rate, whether it be that their character as keepers and 
expounders of the Law gives them greater licence, or that their intellect 
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